Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Tirana, Albania's capital, to Teheran, Persia's capital, is at best an arduous trip of nearly 2,000 miles through primitive country. Last week Charles Calmer Hart, lately promoted from U. S. Minister to Albania to be U. S. Minister to Persia, was making this journey. But instead of traveling over long roundabout routes, he was shortcutting from post to post across Soviet Russia. The significance of his trip lay in the fact that he was the first U. S. diplomat to enter Russia officially in a dozen years...
Bright by night is the.white dome of the U. S. Capitol, set like an enormous frosted wedding cake in the glare of encircling batteries of searchlights. Brighter than ever was the dome one evening hour last week when sharp flames leaped up through the Capitol roof...
About the only place in Washington last week where there was no loud talk of Prohibition was at the White House. There President Hoover, puzzled by fresh eruptions on a question the importance of which he believes is exaggerated, kept his mouth closed, his ears open. There was plenty for him to hear...
...rite performed with fiery grog. But now U. S. sailors go to sea to keep the peace. Josephus Daniels and others have told them that grog is not good for peaceful men. The U. S. S. Memphis, about to depart from Baltimore for a southern winter cruise, last week installed a main-brace-splicer which improved even upon Mr. Daniels' famed grape juice. She was equipped with a $7,000 soda fountain and ice cream plant. The Navy's domestic scientists estimated that, in Caribbean weather, the Memphis crew of 435 would consume 80 gals, of ice cream...
...sponsored Bingham's engagements in the Middle West last year and the year before. This year they have asked him to extend the length and time of his former trips so that he might travel as far as the Pacific coast. Last year Bingham's trip lasted but one week in which time he visited St. Paul. Kansas City, and Syracuse, speaking at various schools and Harvard clubs in these cities...